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What user say about speed reading

My reading speed has slowed significantly in the past few years (ever since I
stopped reading paperback books for the most part). The sub vocalization
issue had never even occurred to me before.

I tried reading the article by just looking at the words, and realized I could
indeed go much faster without pronouncing them in my head. I guess that's how skimming
works, but the trick is to slow down just enough to actually understand each word
while taking the group of words together as one thought.

What user say about speed reading

I am not sure that I can think much faster than I can sub vocalize.
To be honest, I often find myself rereading certain things to try and fully understand
them.

Have any tests been able to show that comprehension does not fall off after a
certain speed of reading has been achieved? I am not talking about repeating
something verbatim, but grasping the "deeper" meaning.

I've been working with a variety of speed reading techniques for a while too
and sub vocalizing was one of my major problems. I seemed to get over it by just
pushing a bit faster than I could form the words in my head.

This did not detract too much from my comprehension and, over a period, got me
out of the habit of sub vocalizing everything. Over time I've found that I can read
extremely quickly when reading "for enjoyment". Especially fantasy novels, which
I easily finish in one sitting.

I'm also a network engineer and I find that when reading white papers or other
such materiel that are work related my speed is less than a third of my "fun-reading"
speed. I perform best where the text enables me to build up clear images, or where
the plot means that the flow of language is easy to follow (or even predict). This
is sadly rarely the case with work related material.